Josh Randall is a
Confederate veteran and
bounty hunter with a soft heart. He often donates his earnings to the needy, and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused. Although Randall is a bounty hunter, he doesn't only chase and capture men on wanted posters. He also settles a family feud, frees unjustly jailed or sentenced men, helps an
amnesia victim recover his memory, and finds missing husbands, sons, fathers, a fiancée, a suitor, a daughter who had been captured many years earlier by Indians, an Army deserter, a pet sheep, and even
Santa Claus. This variety, as well as his pursuit of justice and not just money, contributed to the show's attraction and popularity. Except for a few episodes at the beginning of the series, Randall rode an energetic horse named Ringo. Beginning with the 1960 episode, "Jason", actor
Wright King appeared in a supporting role as Jason Nichols, an eager young deputy sheriff turned bounty hunter. By the start of the third season, Nichols had been dropped. The episode, "The Partners", in which Nichols instigated a gunfight resulting in three deaths that Randall felt were avoidable, is often considered the episode that broke up the partnership, although that was actually only the second episode with Wright King and long before his last episode. ==Cast==